Waiting for the Long Night Moon

✍ Scribed by Amanda Peters

• Book ID: 115290413
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781443468220

✦ Synopsis

In her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place --from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of Indigenous children, to the present-day fight for the right to clean water.

These intimate stories meld traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose that portray the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism, and the resilient power to endure. A young man returns from residential school only to realize he can no longer communicate with his own parents. A young woman finds purpose and healing on the front lines as a water protector. An old man remembers his life as he patiently waits for death. And a young girl nervously dances in her first Mawi'omi. The collection also includes the Indigenous Voices Award-nominated story "Pejipug (Winter Arrives)" as well the Indigenous Voices...